Sweet Silent Thought - Stuart Vezey

On Tuesday 7 October 2014 twenty-six members of the New London Singers together with their musical director Ivor Setterfield gathered at St Jude-on-the-Hill, Hampstead Garden Suburb to rehearse and record ‘Sweet Silent Thought’ - a musical setting for unaccompanied chamber choir of Shakespeare’s Sonnet XXX.
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
I summon up remembrance of things past,
I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,
And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste:
Then can I drown an eye, unused to flow,
For precious friends hid in death's dateless night,
And weep afresh love's long since cancell'd woe,
And moan the expense of many a vanish'd sight:
Then can I grieve at grievances foregone,
And heavily from woe to woe tell o'er
The sad account of fore-bemoaned moan,
Which I new pay as if not paid before.
But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
All losses are restored and sorrows end.
‘Sweet Silent Thought’ is the second of four musical settings of Shakespeare sonnets composed by Stuart Vezey - the others being ‘Music To Hear’ (Sonnet VIII), ‘Let Those Who Are In Favour (Sonnet XXV) and ‘No Longer Mourn For Me’ (Sonnet LXXI) under the collective title ‘Music To Hear’.
The full suite 'Music To Hear' can be viewed as a Sibelius sound file at:
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‘Music To Hear’ is published by Kidman, Little & Associates Ltd.
For more information e-mail [e-mail] or visit www.stuartvezey.co.uk for information about further recordings of Stuart Vezey's music.
For more information about the New London Singers visit: www.newlondonsingers.org.uk

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An EXCELLENT work by all - keep sharing with us! KR Dave B @ Digital Imaging